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s. quite the opposite. it's very much something we find our tradition. i would say no. it's for me, a contradiction in terms to say i'm a practicing muslim. i will keep quiet in front of a dictator. the only right way of being a man in a woman of faith is to be courageous. to speak the truth. to say a word of truce to aty ranted. i think this is what -- sometimes you have in our democracy to be courageous. i would like the americans to be a bit more courageous with their government. [applause] box tv has over 150,000 twitter followers. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information, and talk directly with authors during the live programming. twitter.com/booktv. i started by saying let us be couchesly optimistic. something is happening which is great. what is great i call in the bock in the tight the awakening. the awaking. of the arab mind and the intellectual revolution with people understanding yes, it's poss
s. quite the opposite. it's very much something we find our tradition. i would say no. it's for me, a contradiction in terms to say i'm a practicing muslim. i will keep quiet in front of a dictator. the only right way of being a man in a woman of faith is to be courageous. to speak the truth. to say a word of truce to aty ranted. i think this is what -- sometimes you have in our democracy to be courageous. i would like the americans to be a bit more courageous with their government. [applause]...
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s that we are. but not playing was intra, you know, religious divisions and now happening in the middle east is going to have an important role between lebanon, syria, and iran and all the other countries in the monarchies. some monarchies are playing nasty role in the whole thing. in saudi arabia, kandahar are i'm sorry i think we have to be cawrnlg use to say that's not acceptable. we have to stick to principles. "the dictators" and whoever are the people. [applause] mr. rom ram -- and protection of minority rights given the pins principles why should we have any optimism whatsoever about the creation of the democracy in muslim majority countries where god is sovereign and where these countries have an abominable history of oppression of religious minorities for centuries? and where that oppression is evidence today in a list of countries. saudi arabia, iran, egypt, iraq. >> look. ic we have to be very cautious not to take examples in history as defining a religion or civilization. because if i wa
s that we are. but not playing was intra, you know, religious divisions and now happening in the middle east is going to have an important role between lebanon, syria, and iran and all the other countries in the monarchies. some monarchies are playing nasty role in the whole thing. in saudi arabia, kandahar are i'm sorry i think we have to be cawrnlg use to say that's not acceptable. we have to stick to principles. "the dictators" and whoever are the people. [applause] mr. rom ram --...
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they ompleted some legal duties.smar but the small number of black s lawyers is quite interesting. at the time there was noe t that much money to be made. it was not as the lawyers are making lots and lots of money.. there were black people in thedn profession. black lawyers, but doctors.ed one of the most admiredplble p professions as being a pharmacistbe did his cockney. lg >> unpublished 89 nonfiction books. losing track.novel. in be this my fifth novel. >> i you teaching this mr.? law >> and still a full-time law nov professor. i started writing novels, most of which have sold pretty
they ompleted some legal duties.smar but the small number of black s lawyers is quite interesting. at the time there was noe t that much money to be made. it was not as the lawyers are making lots and lots of money.. there were black people in thedn profession. black lawyers, but doctors.ed one of the most admiredplble p professions as being a pharmacistbe did his cockney. lg >> unpublished 89 nonfiction books. losing track.novel. in be this my fifth novel. >> i you teaching this...
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t things and security hasho gone s better but will those things be sustained?hat c will the afghans be ableom to te the baton from our troops asnal they come home? a those surge forces that have come home this summer, they wilr likely come home next year and the hereafter, will be afghans really do what is necessary toin make the blood and treasure thaa we have been protecting. >> we are with rajiv chandasekaran. this is his second book, "littli america: the war within the war for afghanistan." you can see the numbers on the l screen. divided by time zones, if you would like to participate in our conversation, go ahead and file and now, and we will begin with. a call from hunter in loveland,n es colorado. >> yeah, i o was wondering about the reasons for the war, and the establishment of a democratic government were more of a western, capitalist system?ent n >> guest: certainly come when the taliban was overthrown in 2001, the bush was administratig wanted to build a morecy democratic government in afghanistan. has that is -- the government thatcp has been creat
t things and security hasho gone s better but will those things be sustained?hat c will the afghans be ableom to te the baton from our troops asnal they come home? a those surge forces that have come home this summer, they wilr likely come home next year and the hereafter, will be afghans really do what is necessary toin make the blood and treasure thaa we have been protecting. >> we are with rajiv chandasekaran. this is his second book, "littli america: the war within the war for...
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she was a sort of 60 girls -- 60's girl before the 60's and she wanted to marry a third world anti-american guy. he divorced her and she went for another third world anti-american guy and she found one again, and indignation guy named low lows sapporo. even in the absence of the father, the mother cultivated in young obama this reference for the -- she said her father is a missing figure. he is a hebrew -- hero, compared to whom to mandela or gandhi, great freedom fighter and reality barack obama was not that perky was either philandering for driving drunk and killed a man and a drunk driving accidents of this was not the real barack obama senior but this was the idea cultivated in obama's mind. especially when obama got a little older and he realize that his dad was not like that. his sister told him, why are you revering this great data powers? he actually was not the guy you think he was. .. >> i call them the obama founding fathers. madison and jefferson and are not of the list. they eight -- he saw them out. he did not find them on the street. frank marshall davis, the radical edward d
she was a sort of 60 girls -- 60's girl before the 60's and she wanted to marry a third world anti-american guy. he divorced her and she went for another third world anti-american guy and she found one again, and indignation guy named low lows sapporo. even in the absence of the father, the mother cultivated in young obama this reference for the -- she said her father is a missing figure. he is a hebrew -- hero, compared to whom to mandela or gandhi, great freedom fighter and reality barack...
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, was saying to somebody the other day to margaret in the 1970's and 80's. some of you grew up in those tickets as well or earlier relator. it was always this incredible sense of american optimism. the musical -- the music was happy. the culture was happy. even though we did -- there were things that were problematic in the culture, but the overall narrative, the story of america was positive and upbeat. you felt that in your various means that this country was exceptional, this country would allow you to do whatever you want to do. this country would not stop you from dreaming and doing whatever you want to do. and grew up with that sense of optimism. every day was a sunny day in america, even when it was pouring down rain. will he experience over the last couple of years has been a grand step of that sense of optimism. has been a robbery, in large part by our own leaders of that sense of optimism and the very essence of american exceptional some "what the (bleep) just happened". what happened to our constitution which seems to get ravaged a daily basis
, was saying to somebody the other day to margaret in the 1970's and 80's. some of you grew up in those tickets as well or earlier relator. it was always this incredible sense of american optimism. the musical -- the music was happy. the culture was happy. even though we did -- there were things that were problematic in the culture, but the overall narrative, the story of america was positive and upbeat. you felt that in your various means that this country was exceptional, this country would...
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s where is that? who is promoting this? it's a challenge. it's a very big challenge. we have to talk about art, we have to talk about beauty. it's part of the democratic thing. et has to do with freedom, it has to do with aceps of belonging within the society, and i think that it's neglected in our discussion. and the last one which is a field that is coming out of all this process is something that's covering the whole thing, the way we deal with corruption. because it's the starting point and the end of the whole process. corruption is one of the main challenges in the arab world at all the levels, by the way, because you deal with ordinary citizens say look at these people, they are so corrupt, but the daily corruption that we experience in the arab world is something that we all know. so we have to deal with this, and this is ethics. ethics of citizenship, ethics of civil society, ethics everywhere, and this is the way i would say islam could play a role as being an ethical reference not by closing and being a framework where we can't just think, but being a refer
s where is that? who is promoting this? it's a challenge. it's a very big challenge. we have to talk about art, we have to talk about beauty. it's part of the democratic thing. et has to do with freedom, it has to do with aceps of belonging within the society, and i think that it's neglected in our discussion. and the last one which is a field that is coming out of all this process is something that's covering the whole thing, the way we deal with corruption. because it's the starting point and...
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[applause] >> you are watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv. .. >> guest: it's an important tool, so we use it for communications, we have, you know, 288 facebook pages with 13 million friends, i think we have almost 200 official twitter accounts with a couple million followers who are using it for communications. but of greater consequence, in my opinion, is part of what we're looking at are some really tough traditional foreign policy challenges and thinking about how we can apply two of america's unique strengths, our ability to innovate and our technology, and see how we can apply those to a given foreign policy challenge. >> host: will you release information via facebook or twitter? >> guest: we do. so there are times where the official statement from our spokesperson or from the department will come over twitter. it's interesting to think about syria, for example. in syria no member of the united states government will ever be able to get a fair shake on syrian media. and we have a terrific ambassador to syria named robert ford. and what he began do
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it was settled with the muslim s beating on the protesters. that was that. why here and not there? as far as i can tell, no explanation. it's not enough to look at the things he's doing, but dig a little bit and see why he's doing them. what's the underlying single standard that can unravel obama's apparent double standard? i think we get a clue from this when we actually look at obama's past. obama's dream is quite clearly not the american dream, at least not as understood by the founders'. it's not even martin luther king's dream. the theme of the film, and actually of the new book called "obama's america," his dream is the dream from his father. that's the title of his own autobiography. his father, who grew up in kenya, who was a third world guy, an anti-american guy, who was by his own claim a socialist, was also, you might say an anti-colonialist, his father was actually absent for most of obama's life. what i didn't realize when i first started writing about this was the enormous impact of obama's mother. obama's mother is presented by obama as the white bred girl from kansa
it was settled with the muslim s beating on the protesters. that was that. why here and not there? as far as i can tell, no explanation. it's not enough to look at the things he's doing, but dig a little bit and see why he's doing them. what's the underlying single standard that can unravel obama's apparent double standard? i think we get a clue from this when we actually look at obama's past. obama's dream is quite clearly not the american dream, at least not as understood by the founders'....
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put >> michael mandelbaum, when you think about china today, where s would you think about that onrky the american spectrum? >> china has done remarkably well over the past 30 years.t china has some serious problems going forward. in this book, we talk a lot, buo about china and china's achievements, but we do not say that america must emulate chinah nhina is part of the process ofo globalization that has put ever more pressure on our society ans our economy, and on every individual who has and wants to keep or get a job. lo a china is important, but the message of this book is that we don't need to look at china, we need to look at ourselves, and indeed, we do need to look atok our history and our tradition. ed >> one of them has a backward cn looking title. if we get back to our best tradition, we can win the futurs in which we have won the past. we have to update them and we have to embrace them. >> my day job is that i am shingt professor of american foreign i policy at the johns hopkins school of advanced national studies in washington. we teach graduate w students. i have wonder
put >> michael mandelbaum, when you think about china today, where s would you think about that onrky the american spectrum? >> china has done remarkably well over the past 30 years.t china has some serious problems going forward. in this book, we talk a lot, buo about china and china's achievements, but we do not say that america must emulate chinah nhina is part of the process ofo globalization that has put ever more pressure on our society ans our economy, and on every individual...